Device for extracting corks



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

' S. D. WEBB.

"DEVICE FOR EXTRAGTING GORKS.

No. 474,788. Patented May 10, 1892.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets- Sheet 2. S D WEBB DEVICE FOR EXTRAGTING GORKS.

No. 474,788. Patented May 10, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL D. I/VEBB, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR OFNINETEEN TWENTY-FOURTHS TO ANDREW B. WEBB, MARTIN V. WEBB, AND P. A.DARNEILLE, OF SAME PLACE. V

DEVICE FOR EXTRACTING CORKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 474,788, dated May 10,1892.

Application filed February 9, 1892. Serial'No. 420,889. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: flat portion A, with screw-holes a therein,and

Be it known that I, SAMUEL D. WEBB. a citifrom which base extends an armB, preferzen of the United States, and a resident of ably formedintegral with said base, and on Washington, District of Columbia, haveinthe end of this arm is formed or otherwise vented new and usefulImprovements in Deconnected a cylindrical case C, in which the 5 vicesfor Extracting Corks; and I do hereby operating parts hereinafterreferred to are declare the following to be a full, clear, and mounted.exact description of said invention, reference The upper end of the caseC, and on each being had to the accompanying drawings, and side atpoints diametrically opposite each to the letters of reference markedthereon, other, is provided with grooves C, and mountwhich form a partof this specification. ed to slide within the caseis a double-threadedThis invention relates to improvements in nut D, engaged with the casethrough the devices for extracting corks from bottles, jugs, slots bymeans of screw heads or lugs (1, seand similar vessels. cured to thenut, and which lugs are adapted I5 The object of my invention is toprovide a to move back and forth in the grooves or slots. device bywhich theneck of the bottle or other The casing C at the upper ends ofthe article is clasped and held by mechanical grooves or enlargedportions C and m is promeans while the cork is extracted, thus obvividedwith apertures 0", through which the ating any liability of cutting theoperators screws are passed and secured to the nut D 20 hands by reasonof splitting the neck of the and disk N. Also mounted in the case and bttl below the guide is a toothed plunger E, hav- Referring to -thedrawings, Figure 1 is a ing the teeth e on one side. Mounted withinfront elevation of the device with the handle this toothed plunger orcylindrical rack E is and clamping-jaws in position and the exadouble-threaded screw G, secured thereto 2 5 tractingscrew in theposition it takes when as described in the Letters Patent before reinthe cork in the neck of the bottle. Fig. 2 ferred to, and connected tothe doubleis alsoafront elevation with the handle raised threaded screwG is the cork-worm H, of a and the clamping-jaws open to receive thesingle thread or twist, the pitch of the single neck of the bottle. Fig.3 is a side view of thread being equal to the pitch of the double- 30the device. Fig.4 is a vertical sectional view threaded screw, so thatone revolution of the taken on the line y y of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a topscrew will impart one revolution to the corkor plan View of the lowerportion of the clampworm. ing device, taken on the line to roof Fig. 2and Formed with or otherwise connected to the showing the spring foropening the clamping stationary case and projecting rearwardly 3 5device. Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional view therefrom 1s a bearing-lugZ, and mounted through the casing, taken on the line .2 z of therein isa shaft K, carrying on one end an Fig. 4, showing the operating parts intheir operating-lever L and on the other a see;- lowest position. mentaltoothed rack M to engage the cylin- Myinvention relates more especiallyto imdrical rack E, the cylindrical case being cut 40 provements incork-extractors for which apopen or slotted at the proper point topermit plications were filed March 14, 1890, Serial No. such engagement.343,918, by E. J Lumley, George T. Jacobs, The cylindrical case at itslower end .is and S. D. Webb, and upon which Letters Patmade flaring,and slightly above the liaring ent were issued March 15, 1892, No.471,057, portion the case is provided with elongated 5 and applicationfiled November 10, 1890, Segrooves m, said grooves being arranged op- 5rial No. 370,888, by Samuel D. Webb and posite each other, as in thecase of the grooves George T. Jacobs, for attachments for cork- C, andbeing arranged preferably in line t t with said grooves or slots, andmounted to A base by which the device is secured to move within the caseis a disk N, having a cen- 50 the table, shelf, or other point consistsof the tral perforation for the passage of the cork I00 grooves O and m.

worm. This disk N is arranged to move within the groovesm through lugsconnected therewith in the same manner as described in reference to thelugs 01 for connecting the nut D with the case.

For the purpose of holding the bottle or other vessel without having theoperator to clasp the same with his hands, and in which this improvementconsists, I secure to the under side of the main supporting-standard B,by means of screw f, separable clamps or jaws 0, said jaws beingprovided on their front ends with lugs g and on the inner side thereofwith a spring at for throwing the jaws open when the same are releasedby raising of the operating-handle.

A are levers pivoted near their centers to the casing G on each side ofthe slot A the lower ends of said levers being adapted to engage thelugs g on the jaws O. The upper ends of the levers A are flared outwardto receive and guide the operating-wedge, which will now be more fullydescribed.

A is a wedge-shaped lug cast with or otherwise secured to the toothedplunger and travels with the same in the slot A to open the upper endsof the levers A and close the lower ends of the same against the lugs gon the clamps O. The inside of the clamps above the spring may be linedwith rubber, as shown at B, Fig. 5, so that the clamps are adapted tofit the neck of bottles of different sizes. Furthermore, the levers Abeing pivoted a rising-and-falling motion of the same is prevented, andthe device is adapted for long as well as for short necked bottles.

On the outer end of the bearing-lug Z is formed a segmental flange 1',which forms a stop for the operating-lever L and prevents the same frombeing'thrown too far either in its upward or downward movement.

The operation of the device is as follows: When it is desired to drawacork, the device stands in such a position that the cork-worm is drawnwithin the cylindrical case with the operating-leverin a verticalposition and with the lugs or screws d at the upper ends of the In thisposition the bottle is held up into the flaring mouth of the case andbetween the jaws 0, the lever is pulled downward, and as thedouble-threaded nut is held stationary the action of the segmental rackof the toothed rack will carry the plunger downward, and by which meanscauses the jaws to close and said not to impart a revolving movement tothe double screw and to the cork-worm and cause the same to be forcedinto the cork. In the first movement downward of the plunger the pointof the wedge carried thereby is forced between the levers, forcing theirupper ends apart and causing the lower ends to act against the lugs g onthe clamps 0, overcoming the tension of the spring at, which actsnormally to hold the jaws open and closing the clamps around the neck ofthe bottle during the entire downward and return movement of the plungerboth in forcing the worm into and withdrawing the cork and stripping thesame. In the reverse movement of the lever theplunger will be carriedupward, in which movement the lugs d will be free to travel through thegrooves Oand mto the upper ends thereof, which acts to extract or drawthe cork from the bottle, in which movement the disk N has been carried,so that the lugs d have reached the upper ends of the slot m. Acontinued upward movement of the lever carries the plunger still fartherupward, and as the nut D is held fast from turning the double screw isagain caused to be revolved in a reverse direction to that when engagingthe cork and by the engagement of the cork with the disk N to withdrawthe cork or discharge the same'therefrom.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. In a cork-extractor, the pivoted spring clamping-jaws adapted tograsp the neck of the bottle, levers pivoted to the main body of theextractor to engage the jaws, and a reciprocating plunger carrying a lugto engage the levers and cause the same to close the clamping-jaws,substantially as described, whereby the neck of the bottleis graspedduring the operation of engaging and drawing the cork and released atthe completion of the operation, as set forth.

2. In a cork-extractor, the pivoted spring clamping-jaws, the lugsprojecting therefrom, the levers pivoted centrally to the main body ofthe machine and with the lower ends to engage the lugs of theclamping-jaws, anda wedge-shaped lug carried by the plunger through aguide-slot in the main body of the extractor, substantially as and forthe purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

SAMUEL D. WEBB.

I Vitnesses:

H. M. STERLING, L. W. SINSABAUGH.

